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It’s the season for transitions and we’re stepping the game up as far as creating a sustainable local supply chain for local cottage sectors globally. What sets us apart is the process we take our collective through. Tapping into our combined experience and expertise in; -Tradition Fashion, Creative Cottage, Bespoke/Custom tailoring and emerging tech. The following is a report published simultaneously on Brooklyn Fashion Week, Nyukco and our project leads Personal blog… Between Now and September 1oth 2015 this report in itself will evolve..

​was created as a solution. Fashioning Change Locally & Impacting Lives Globally, NYuKCo serves the Creative Industries Exploring the intersection of Fashion, Business and Technology with the goal of incubating and accelerating sustainable local fashion and lifestyle businesses. It developed after Last years BKStylecon

B​A unique conference that evolved into a bootcamp. This years conference will be virtual and feed of last years events. (sign up to our newsletter for more info). We resume NYukCo in early September in the meantime we’re in transition seasonally. We’ll soon be moving from from summer to to fall/holiday. as well as structurally from Alpha 1 and 2 of our pre startup phase to Alpha3.

We ​understand we ​ do not sell images​,​ we sell apparel. Within ​the local fashion sector man​y cater to several​ price points and clothing categories but “Fashion” usually refers to what’s popular with stylish fashion forward consumers. The business of fashion is successfully executed when we can provide what the consumer needs or desires and what the designer​s​seeks to offer. The former means effective consumer profiling, interaction and development. ​The latter ​means addressing issues in the local fashion sector. We’ve worked hard in the last year testing various concepts and we are currently making the transition from testing theories to formatting procedures that works.

​Technical design support and sampling services that ensure great fit is still very much an issue even for the local sector

Production & Manufacturing personnel, supplies and facilities

​Access to experienced personnel with expertise in Merchandising ​for wholesale​,retail and direct sales, online and offline

Fashion As “Conversation”, ​Navigating the complicated process in marketing, advertising and promotion across the ConversationPrism​

Navigating ​Shipping and Fulfillment, import, export and customer service solutions

the financing funding and other resources to make it happen and

​Trade platforms & publications that help monitor and report on innovations & future trends affecting the sector locally and globally

Business of Fashion | Fashion tech ​| ​Fashion Law ​

We’ve learned that a “Whol-istic and organic” approach is needed, and that a lean approach makes that paucible and “executable”. Solutions were inspired by need, fostered through “testing” but become effective with practice, adjustment and repetition – lather, rinse – repeat. developing solutions take time.

​PARTICIPANTS-
A list of our present participants as well as their look books will be updated shortly
We focus specifically on the creative cottage sector, however as a collective approach NYukCo is not for everyone. Within our first two weeks we were reminded that creative cottage is a broad term and included. Our first Participants

​The scope needed for fine tuning a concept to a final product service and merchandise means that novices are not an ideal fit for the physical offline program. However they do benefit tremendously from access and so a virtual program will be tested this fall after repeated request. Alpha 3 is dedicated to structuring participation details. participant have thus far all opted in understanding that the program will shift and we really do need to thank them for their willingness to help solve longstanding issues. When we opened our doors we had the pleasure of directly engaging our community and realized that for many we were the only source for information. We soon realized that our potential cohort pool included

​Hobbyist – accommodating – Professional in other fields who still create high quality items but are not interested in managing the business of it’s sale ​as per request we will shift www.​DeMarketplace.com to a manged sales outlet for these

Those who simply want access to resources without participation

Vested Interest Partners and Sponsors​

Fashion Interns Apprentices and Angel – round off the full scope of “WHO’ is involved

​- Each component was developed as need arose. ​While we’ve laid out a general outline. it should be noted that each addresses specific challenges and their solution. The full scope is reserved for participants. What sets us apart is the process we take our collective through. Tapping into our combines experience and expertise in Tradition Fashion, Creative cottage, bespoke/custom tailoring and emerging tech. Alpha 3 we will focus on streamlining the processes.

Pop Up Lab Part boutique, part pop-up shop, part lab, its a physical space that facilitates live interactions between businesses and consumers. Weekly Saturdays 1-5

FashionTech Makers Studio A hands on exploration of fashion, tech, and fashion tech, topics as they relate to creative, business, presentation and sale in both the online and digital platforms weekly 10:30 am –1pm

​#​SocialCommerce Social commerce -​ ​We’ve seen in recent months an emergence of a new type of entrepreneur a person whose daily selfies are soft sells for products to their social media following. Essentially they are engaging in Socialcommerce. They wear these items or pull a “look” together and leverage their carefully developed social collateral. Hence Socialcommerce model. Our designers and stylist encourage consumer engagement​, having real customers ​styled and committing that to various media formats video, photo, with the intent of sharing via social media. We plan to seasonally bring in guest ​curators, stylist ​photographers, blogger and models to add their unique voice to the local style conversation

​Platform Designers across the globe want access to local shoppers. ​Brooklyn provide access to NY​C Fashion in general and the a​n​d the

powerful Brooklyn branding particular. ​However Brooklyn Designers also want access to th global community when they travel. Platform​ is presented by the team at NYukCo in conjunction with TheStratosphere.com, Bklyn.Tv and WWW.Brooklynfashionweek.com

Bridge is a component through which we seek to integrate local creative cottage into NY vibrant tech and business circuit.

Cottage Production – Training – One of the few component untested on a larger scale is a training program ​that would create a skilled local production sector. We’ve laid out a plan and will pursue development during Alpha 3

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We serve a sector that does not have access to ​traditional funding, nor press. As such the ability to speak – communicate will be our next focus.